Word: goober
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Georgia's labor-hating, liberal-hating, New Deal-hating Eugene ("Goober") Cox: "A sorry bid for the Negro vote. . . . Remembering what the Negro cost you [Republicans] following the Civil War, I am surprised you want him back...
What men sing as they march forth to war is a continual vexation to serious musicians. In the Civil War, Stonewall Jackson's "foot cavalry" were fond of a song praising goober peas ("Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas!"); while the inconsequential battle hymn of the South became...
...worked fast: industry's self-appointed House watchdog, bellicose Representative Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Camilla, Ga.; and bumbling Representative Carl Vinson of Milledgeville, Ga., self-appointed watchdog of the interests of the Navy's high command. Together they suddenly proposed an amendment which was designed to freeze the old and new priorities powers under OPM's Stettinius; give official status to committees of industry, and make all priority rulings finally subject to approval by the Army and Navy Munitions Board. Further: to warn against the probable coming ouster of Stettinius. appointment of anyone as Priorities Director would...
...vain foes of the amendment argued that it would open the House to the charge of playing politics with defense, that no one would be drafted until after Election Day anyway. When Georgia's Edward Eugene ("Goober'') Cox exclaimed of the amendment: "To accept it would convince the people of this country that the membership of this House is only an aggregation of self-serving politicians," its fate in a House of 435 politicians was sealed. The amendment was adopted 185-to-155. More notable to many a Representative was the sight of Republican National Chairman...
Wildest man was hot-eyed Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Camilla, Ga., Tory hatchetman who dominates the House Rules Committee. Mr. Cox felt the fury that comes only to those who outsmart themselves. Intent on sabotaging the act, he rammed to the floor three sets of amendments sponsored by Graham Barden of New Bern, N. C., which would have exempted from the law practically all workers engaged in handling agricultural products-a prospect greatly pleasing to the strawberry producers and other farmers in Mr. Barden's district...